"Canada Provinces Agree To Strategy on Pipelines, Climate Change"

"OTTAWA -- Canada's provinces reached a long-sought deal on Friday over an energy plan for the country, agreeing broadly to curb greenhouse gas emissions while also promoting the use of pipelines.

The oil-producing province of Alberta originally conceived the strategy as a way to ensure that it could move its fuel to market. The plan was changed at the insistence of some of the provinces to reflect their desire to fight climate change.

Alberta and Saskatchewan have limited markets for their land-locked oil, with environmentalists opposing pipelines that have to go through other provinces to reach the Pacific or Atlantic oceans."

Leah Schnurr and Randall Palmer report for Reuters July 17, 2015.

Source: Reuters, 07/20/2015